f 2825 “h] 
In general, there was in each manor ove great 
farm called the Lord’s Farm, which ufually had 
its lands in feveralty, and diftinct from the tenanis. 
The reft of the manor, called the Tenantry Part, 
was divided into fmall copyhold tenements or 
farms, called “ Yard-Lands;” each of which was 
originally zearly of equal value, and enjoyed equal 
rights of commonage. 
Thefe tenants fent their fheep to one common 
flock, where they were kept by a common fhep- 
herd; and their cows and plough oxen to acommon 
herd, where they were kept by a common herd{man. 
As the neceffity of a common fheep-flock ftill 
continues for the fake of manuring the common- 
field lands, a confiderable part of thefe {mall pro- 
perties, called Yard-Lands, are ftill occupied in 
their original ftate of commonage, although the 
tenure of them is in many inftances changed from 
copyhold, fome to leafes for lives, fome fallen into 
the lord’s hands and lett at rack rents, and fome 
fold off in fee, and frequently many of them oc- 
cupied by one perfon. 
The value of thefe yard-lands is different in 
different parts of this diftrict, as is already ftated, 
and of courfe the quantity of land in each varies 
very confiderably. There are many inftances 
where a yard-land of about 2o0l. per annum con- 
tains about two acres of meadow land, eighteen 
acres of arable, (frequently in eighteen or twenty 
pieces) 
